No Bacon! No Eggs! No Apple Pie?: Spring Season Recipes Without Gluten, Dairy or Meat from the Kitchen of Cougar Mountain Therapy Center

By Ania Przepierzynska

No Bacon! No Eggs! No Apple Pie? is a collection of recipes from the kitchen of Cougar Mountain Therapy Center as they have evolved over the past two decades. As the title suggests, these recipes use no meat, no dairy, and no gluten.
In this spring cookbook, you will find thirty-one delicious recipes, one for every day of the month. There is an emphasis on seasonal eating and using locally grown vegetables and fruit as much as possible. You can enjoy a whole season of clean eating with these simple-to-prepare healthy meals.
Recipes include some less common ingredients such as teff, goji berries, adzuki beans, black beluga lentils, chia seeds, miso, arugula, and bok choy. These recipes help you bring out the flavors of your food with herbs, spices, lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, and unrefined oils. As you enjoy these recipes, you will reeducate your taste buds to become accustomed to the taste of real food.
If you are looking for a better way to nourish yourself, if you are facing health challenges or food intolerances, or if you simply realize that you need to be kinder to your body and dont know where to begin, this cookbook is for you. It will serve as your guide to making the shifts you needhowever smallone day and one season at a time.
Ania has always had an interest in food and a particular love of vegetables. She was raised in a traditional Polish family following the typical European style of eating with its deep appreciation of homegrown food. She began helping in the garden and in the kitchen at the age of 5.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jul 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9781982206161

Ania Przepierzynska

Ania has always had a pioneering spirit and moved across the ocean to Canada when she was 19. While living in Montreal in the 80s, a holistic approach to eating became popular. She took courses in this area, studied and worked in the famous Le Comencal vegetarian restaurant. Soon people around her recognized her expertise and she began to teach courses on nutrition, cooking and eating in a healthy vegetarian way. When she met Elisabeth Padzierski, acupuncturist, healer and founder of Cougar Mountain Therapy Center, she was given a venue to truly express her magic in the kitchen. Cougar Mountain addresses critical illness in a holistic way. An integral part of that healing process is nutrition. Ania met the challenges of different peoples needs with finesse, and effortlessly combined her knowledge of the science and chemistry of digestion with the nurturing aspect of enriching flavourful foods. According to Elisabeth: She has so much integrity that it shows in her food. Her food is true, simple, generous, and just beautiful. She guides people in a thoughtful way, giving a very practical and simple approach to healthful cooking and nutrition. Having worked with Elisabeth for over twenty years, and the twenty years of ensuing requests for her recipes, Ania has finally completed this work of art. This is the first of four cookbooks that we can look forward to as Ania honours the bodys innate connection to the earths seasons and the foods that feed and nurture the bodys natural rhythms. You can visit her website, www.simplehealthycookingwithania.com

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

How To Use This Book

Breakfast

Grains

Legumes

Vegetables

Sweets

Glossary

Acknowledgements

My most heartfelt appreciation for encouragement and support goes to Elisabeth Pazdzierski.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to express my creativity through preparing healthy food.

Thanks to Keri Wehlander and Rae-Marie Leggott for your expertise and advice, to Mary Anne Kingsmill for your suggestions, and Bob Kingsmill for the use of your pottery to display my creations.

Finally, I would like to thank my family, friends and everyone who will read this book.

Introduction

Over the past two decades, I have been preparing meals at Cougar Mountain Therapy Center. People always commented that I should put all of my recipes in a book, because they wanted to have something to refer to at home to help them continue these healthy eating habits. Whenever we are faced with health challenges, it forces us to focus on what is really important in life, and what is beneficial to our good health and wellbeing. It can be a big transition.

The title of this book is inspired by one of our patients who came to the Center. I will call him Ralph. For the first few days, we had rice porridge for breakfast, rice and vegetables for lunch and for dinner, soup with more rice. On day four, Ralph asked me point blank, Are we going to eat anything besides porridge for breakfast? After I shook my head, he still was not convinced. He looked me in the eye and said, Are you telling me that there’s no bacon on your menu? No, I said. No eggs? No eggs, I replied. He went on: And let me guess, no apple pie? I shook my head. He was astounded. What am I going to do!?

By the end of his time with us, Ralph had started to enjoy rice porridge for breakfast and rice with the evening soup. I even baked him an apple…crisp. Once back home, he expanded his traditional meals adding rice, vegetables—and on occasion—porridge for breakfast.

Many people are not accustomed to eating in this way. Often, people at the Center are not familiar with some of the foods prepared in our kitchen. This is why I include a Featured Food in each section, with a short description, interesting facts, where to buy it and how to store and cook it. This will allow you to become familiar with some uncommon foods and gradually integrate them to your daily diet.

My cookbooks are divided into seasons, using ingredients that are readily available, and, as much as possible, locally grown. In this volume, the focus is on spring. As days grow longer, nature stirs with new vigour and fresh growth. Spring is the best time to cleanse and detoxify.

By embracing the seasons we shift into balance and harmony with nature, we connect to the wisdom of our ancestors and the rhythm of our beautiful planet. What we think and eat every day becomes an essential part of who we are. Every season our body moves into a different stage, with each season overlapping the previous and the